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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Death and Taxes by David Dodge
David Francis Dodge (1910-1974) was a versatile U.S. author of crime fiction and amusing travel books. He published multiple travel articles on assignment for magazines and then incorporated the settings into his fiction. To Catch a Thief is his most famous novel....
Dead in the Morning by Margaret Yorke
Margaret Yorke (1924-2012) was born Margaret Beda Larminie Nicholson in Surrey, lived in Dublin for many years and moved back to England. She was a ferocious champion of libraries, for which she won the CWA Golden Handcuffs award, given in recognition of the...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Black Stage by Anthony Gilbert
The Black Stage by Anthony Gilbert (Collins, 1945) is the 16th book about the redoubtable solicitor turned detective Arthur Crook. Published as Murder Cheats the Bride in the U.S., it is set immediately after the end of World War II with all of the characters...
A Clowder of Cat Mysteries
Originally published in Mystery Readers Journal, Volume 39, Number 4, Animals in Mysteries II, Winter 2023. That cats and mysteries go together like peanut butter and jelly or shoes and socks is evident by the number of mysteries written about cats and the number...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Case of the Missing Sandals by Nancy Barr Mavity
Nancy Barr Mavity (1890-1959) was a U.S. journalist, author, and critic. Born Nann Clark Barr in Illinois, she was a reporter, feature writer, and book reviewer for the Oakland Tribune for more than 20 years. She also wrote about her solo trips to Japan,...
The Corpse Now Arriving by Margaret Hinxman
Margaret Hinxman (1924-2018) was a preeminent UK film critic who turned to writing crime fiction after a wildly successful journalistic career. Her obituary in The Guardian describes her cinematic work in detail:...
Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who still reads at every opportunity and loves to talk about what she is reading.